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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States
This past January, Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, with the Co-60 to be supplied to Nordion. Through an ongoing joint initiative, the companies aim to harness U.S. pressurized water reactors to produce a key medical isotope and build the first commercial-scale Co-60 production platform in the United States.
Technical Session
Monday, November 8, 2021|12:40–2:40PM EST
Session Chair:
David Grabaskas (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Mohammad Modarres (Univ Maryland)
Session Producer:
John Greenwood
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Development and Use of PSA for SMR Design - This paper has been withdrawn.
12:40–1:10PM EST
Vincent Sorel (EDF), Yann Morvan (EDF)
Paper
Demonstration of MACCS Capabilities for Advanced Reactors: Normalized Dose Assessment and Radionuclide Sensitivity Analysis for a High Temperature Gas Reactor Mechanistic Source Term
1:10–1:40PM EST
J. Leute (Sandia), M. Smith (Sandia), E. Leonard (Sandia), N. Andrews (Sandia), D. Luxat (Sandia), K. Wagner (Sandia)
Sodium Filter Performance in the NaSCoRD Database
1:40–2:10PM EST
Jamal A. Mohmand (Sandia), Andrew J. Clark (Sandia)
